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How to Use Smart Phones to Cut IT Total Cost of Ownership IT departments can reap the benefits of a lower total cost of ownership for their mobile workforce by replacing their field and remote staff's laptops with mobile smart phones. Knowledge Center contributor William Anderson explains the benefits of moving field and remote staff over to smart phones, and offers nine best practices for IT professionals to follow when doing so. - Most businesses today have field and remote staff who use laptops, cell phones and other mobile devices. The number of employees doing so is escalating dramatically. Enterprises will see a major increase in usage by years end, while small and midsize businesses will see a significant increas... BlackBerry Storm Lacks Punch RIMs BlackBerry Storm smartphone offers all the enterprise features that businesses have come to know and love and that Apples iPhone lacks. However, the BlackBerry Storm is slow, and its keyboard is clunky, particularly compared with the iPhone. - The BlackBerry Storm 9530 is Research In Motion's first smartphone to dispense with a physical keyboard in favor of touch-sensitive display. As with other keyboardless devices, such as Apple's popular iPhone 3G, the absence of a physical keyboard in the Storm means more in the way of display spac... Ten Tactics to Get More from Your Data Center with Less Money With data volumes growing at 60 percent to 70 percent per year (Gartner's educated guess), and power costs expected to increase by 15 percent (the power industry's educated guess), how does an IT manager make peace with the very real possibility that he or she won't be able to buy as much power and capacity this next fiscal year? - Where to Start Cutting Data Center Power Costs Here's a listing of ideas from Emerson Network Power that can be instituted immediately in virtually any data center. Cover Your Bases. It may be more difficult to recover from an outage during tough economic times than during prosperous one. A re... Where to Start Cutting Data Center Power Costs Current macroeconomic conditions will impact data center budgets -- along with everything else -- big time in 2009. It follows that data center and IT managers will need to get more from their facilities with less money available. Here's a primer on where to find the low-hanging fruit of power savings. - Data center budgets, along with just about every other budget in the business world, are being evaluated for 2009 and undergoing more scrutiny than usual due to uncertain macroeconomic conditions. So, with data volumes growing at 60 percent to 70 percent per year (Gartner's educated guess), and ... Enterprise Apps Maker Salesforce.com's Profit Tops Estimates Salesforce.com reports quarterly profit ahead of Wall Street expectations, though the enterprise applications maker issued forecasts that were below most Wall Street projections. Shares in CRM, SAAS and cloud computing specialist Salesforce.com rise after the results. - * Q3 EPS 18 cents, tops Street view 17 cents * Q4 rev forecast $284-$285 mln, below Street view $289 mln * Q4 EPS forecast of 6-7 cents vs Street view of 7 cents (Adds analyst comment, byline) BOSTON, Nov 20 (Reuters) Salesforce.com Inc reported quarterly profit ahead of Wall Street expectatio... Dell Beats Wall Street Estimates by Cutting Costs, Reducing Expenses Dell, the worlds second largest desktop and notebook vendor, beat Wall Street estimates after it posted a third-quarter net income of $727 million. While Dell has acknowledged that IT spending is down and its revenues dipped year over year, the companys efforts at cutting costs and reducing expenses helped the PC vendor turn a profit. While Dell executives did not speculate about the fourth quarter of 2009, they did say that the future is proving to be a challenge. For enterprises, CEO Michael Dell said the company plans to expand its server, data storage and virtualization offerings. - Dell, which remains the worlds second largest PC vendor, beat Wall Street estimates and posted a third-quarter net income of $727 million thanks to a number of aggressive cost-cutting measures and a reduction in operating expenses. Dell released its third-quarter financial results Nov. 20. The... eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: BlackBerry Storm 9530 Smartphone Research In Motion, the mobile and wireless device vendor known best for its often-imitated Chiclet-style thumb keyboards, has produced its first touch-screen device, the BlackBerry Storm. The BlackBerry Storm's most striking feature is its nifty SurePress touch-screen, which combines the flexibility of software-based input with the tactile response of physical buttons. Click on for some pictures of the Storm smartphone that we've taken during our tests so far, and then read our review of the device. - ... Symantec Sees Rise in USB-Based Malware as Reports of U.S. Army Ban Surface A reported ban by the U.S. Army on USB devices underscores the growing prevalence of USB-based malware. Researchers at Symantec say they have observed an increase in USB security threats going back at least a year. - Researchers at Symantec are noting an uptick in USB-based malware as reports surface of a U.S. Army ban on USB devices and portable media. According to reports on Wired, the U.S. Army has banned the use of USB sticks, flash media cards, CDs and other removable storage due to security concern... Nortel Says IP Trunking Could Reduce SMB Voice, Data Costs Nortel's IP trunking technology is a way for SMBs to combine voice and data connections through PBX exchanges, which Nortel says will improve efficiency, cut costs and provide professional polish for midmarket companies. - Rob Scheible, Nortel's senior marketing manager for Carrier VOIP and Applications Marketing, says he gets one constant appeal from small and midsize businesses looking to increase their competitiveness, and it isn't about saving money. quot;When we talk to SMBs, they all say, 'We may be a small... Datawatch Looks to SMBs to Expand Business Datawatch is expanding its business intelligence software into the midmarket, with a focus on helping SMBs cut costs by improving data access and analysis efficiency with Web-based services. - Datawatch, an enterprise information management company, announced Nov. 20 its fourth-quarter and fiscal 2008 earnings and signaled a commitment to expanding its technology offerings to small and midsize businesses. Despite a dip in quarterly and fiscal year earnings, CEO Ken Bero said expansion...

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